So you want to know about the Formidine Rift? (Part 3)

[Diplomacy] Carnegie

[Diplomacy] Carnegie
FSD Upgrades

Greetings Rifters

Information from the Beta suggests that there will be an engineer specializing in FSD upgrades located at Khun (-171 / 19/ -56) which is on the edge of Rift-side of inhabited space.

http://inara.cz/galaxy-starsystem/9142
http://inara.cz/galaxy-engineer/2

My adopted home of Chacobog is only 20LY away from Khun, so if anyone is worried about the new, scary AI and/or gankers, give me a shout and I'll bring my combat Vulture as an escort. I'll be mostly in the area for a while, since my Rift investigations are Bubble-centric at this point.

CMDR Drew Carnegie

Just make sure you've traveled more than 30LY from your starting system :D
 
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[Diplomacy] Carnegie

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frostypaw said:
Good catch, but I think that's likely to change in the live version to something significantly higher
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Yeah, I'm curious to know how much of the Beta configuration of Engineers is carried forward into live.
For example, the Khun engineer performs upgrades to FSD, thrusters, shields and SCBs - having a high 'distance traveled' requirement doesn't make much sense for shields and SCBs. I'd expect more specialized engineers with higher, but more related, requirements.
 

IliteratSqirel

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It appears Jaques is indeed gone missing. Here's the excerpt from today's galnet:

Two weeks ago it was announced that Jaques Station, the galaxy's most famous travelling starport, would make an incredible long-distance jump from Gliese 1269 to Beagle Point. The proposed expedition received enthusiastic support from the galactic community, which contributed thousands of tonnes of fuel to the ambitious campaign.

But despite setting off almost a week ago, no communications have been received from Jaques Station since it departed, and explorers at Beagle Point have reported no sign of the outpost. Dr Kaii, one of the leaders of the Distant Worlds Expedition, released the following statement:

"I have received numerous updates from pilots in the vicinity of Beagle Point reporting 'no joy' on the Jacques jump. Members of the fleet have searched nearby systems, but there is no sign of the station. A full investigation should be launched as soon as possible."

Kinsley Larson, an engineering specialist, offered this assessment to the Federal Times:

"I can't say I'm surprised. A leap like that would be a remarkable feat for a starship, never mind a starport. Even if Jaques Station survived the jump, there are countless things that could have gone wrong and caused it to veer off course. It could be almost anywhere in the galaxy. Assuming it's still in one piece, that is."

A number of Unknown Artefacts had recently been sold at Jaques Station, and the starport was experiencing technical issues at the time it departed for Beagle Point.


I sure hope he ends up somewhere near the rift!
 
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Aerovoid

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DrewCarnegie said:
Information from the Beta suggests that there will be an engineer specializing in FSD upgrades located at Khun (-171 / 19/ -56) which is on the edge of Rift-side of inhabited space.
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I have invites from two engineers that both seem to like explorers. I forget there names ATM. One was in khun. The other was on the opposite side of the bubble. Im at work now, so I can't check. I'm sure others here have the same invites.
 

M. Volgrand

M. Volgrand
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Just so... you know... explorer's everyday problems.
 
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Dark_Helmet

Dark_Helmet
Meta alloys are definitely a bug, but are being sold in Darnielles Progress in Maia until a fix is sorted, not sure about the Relics though.
 

Jaiotu

Jaiotu
Here's the evidence behind Dark_Helmets' claim:

Michael Brookes said:
As already mentioned this is confirmed as a bug. As a stop gap measure we'll open a market at Darnielle's Progress in the Maia system so you can buy meta-alloys from their surplus for a while.

Thanks for spotting the issue!

Michael
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Saool

Saool
I am now just over halfway between the bubble and the H&S and making my way at a leisurely pace. As I approach I have noticed what looks like a star cluster ahead. I wondered if this was the H&S starting to come into view, but they became visible about 8 jumps later and this was clearly something else. What was interesting was it looked orange as opposed to blue white as they normally look. A bit of messing with the map relieved the likely cluster as IC 1805. As it is on the way, and I have already made one detour to explore NGC 1502, I will go work my way through that cluster (there is quite a lot to it). Does anyone know if it has been explored in detail before? It is roughly on the RR line.

Speaking of the line. Whilst if followed very closely it takes you to the area that is already being well explored, it you take it a little more loosely, you get to the H&S. If we were to assume, for the sake of argument, this was the edge the woman was talking about, and did not just want to say, go to the H&S, then the rift beyond is far deeper that the currently excepted area. Beyond that lays the OOB AIRG, SMAIDAU and TYROOPPS sectors. Again do we know if these have been explored?
 
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Alkibiades

Alkibiades
something to scratch off the list:

after i heard about the heisenberg crossing i thought could it be that easy?! you know... "plot a route across the rift and then just go on". i also took the 7 veils thing into consideration and looked for a neutron star south of the crossing end point. thats how i found Smaideae AY-F d12-7. unfortunatly its a very boring system and not what we are looking for. the surrounding systems are boring as well. it was a shot in the dark and i missed...

however i found another neutron star even further south to which i'm heading atm cause that 7 layers thing and kgbfoam is spooking in my head since a couple of days. it must be an important clue. it just has to be...


besides that i did the heisenberg crossing in just 80 jumps (instead 126) in my exploraconda with 37 ly. here are the waypoints i used:

starting point: Myoideau RF-N c20-1

waypoint 1: Myoideau OZ-X c14-0

waypoint 2: Myoideau GW-N c6-0

waypoint 3: Schee Hypa WS-L b55-0

waypoint 4: Hypoae Aescs UG-J b36-0

end: Hypoae Aescs YE-R d4-2

as you can see i plotted a route only 5 times. that route is worth so much, thanks a lot heisenberg!
 

rge

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Hi there,
i've been reading a lot in these "rift threads" and did some research for myself in the last couple of weeks.
But i've never been out of the buble since I started playing elite.
This week I decided to grad an asp explorer and head off to the rift ... at least to the area in space where we all think the secret is hidden.

I just read we can now see in the netlog the exact coordinates of a visited system. Too bad I am already gone to far to turn around and check what coordinates are given for reorte and riedquat.
I have one or two tinfoil theories in mind, which basicly depend on some math with the given coordinates (which we could only get by EDSM / trilateration).
If one of you is still in the buble and could provide me with the exact coordinates from the netlog, i could do the calculation again and check out where it leads me (probably nowhere, but I want to try it at least :)).
I guess the coordinates itself do not differ much from the ones we had, but even a difference of 0.01 could change the RR - Line a lot over the given distance.

Your help would be very much appreciated.;)
 

Querty Out

Q
rge said:
Hi there,
i've been reading a lot in these "rift threads" and did some research for myself in the last couple of weeks.
But i've never been out of the buble since I started playing elite.
This week I decided to grad an asp explorer and head off to the rift ... at least to the area in space where we all think the secret is hidden.

I just read we can now see in the netlog the exact coordinates of a visited system. Too bad I am already gone to far to turn around and check what coordinates are given for reorte and riedquat.
I have one or two tinfoil theories in mind, which basicly depend on some math with the given coordinates (which we could only get by EDSM / trilateration).
If one of you is still in the buble and could provide me with the exact coordinates from the netlog, i could do the calculation again and check out where it leads me (probably nowhere, but I want to try it at least :)).
I guess the coordinates itself do not differ much from the ones we had, but even a difference of 0.01 could change the RR - Line a lot over the given distance.

Your help would be very much appreciated.;)
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I did some calculations some time back and came up with ca. plus/minus 25ly difference at a distance of 10000ly, so not that much. In my calculations I have only varied the X and Z coordinates by 0.01ly. Checking with the exact coordinates and varied Y coordinate wouldn't hurt (don't have them handy, sorry). That said... most people consider RR line as a general direction only. Shouldn't stop you from having fun with your own theories though :)
 

Jaiotu

Jaiotu
Daoze said:
So after reading the short story Altera it seems to be related to the Formidine Rift. I was wondering if anyone could tell me the significance of the word Ragazza!/? Other things that stand out Heart & Soul, Ghost, beyond the grave.

http://www.drewwagar.com/downloads/books/oolite/Altera.pdf
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There is a LOT of what is in Altera that only makes sense if you've read the other four books in the Oolite saga.

Ragazza is a word that the Thargoids use to describe Rebekah Tiley/Weston. The other books are available on Drew's site as well.
 
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